Combined match and cigarette box.



PATENTED MAY 16, 1906.

L.-DE GOLL. COMBINED MATCH AND CIGARETTE BOX.

APPLIGATIDN FILED MAY 22, 1905.

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T0 OLZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS DE GoLL, a'citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Match and Cigarette Box and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in boxes designed to deliver small articles one at a time. It is especially designed for delivering matches one at a time; but it may be used for other similar purposes, and in the preferred form it is a combined match and cigarette box.

The object of my invention is to produce a simple, economical, and. effective device of this class; and with this object in view my invention consists in the construction and com binations of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my combined match and cigarette box. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same, the dotted lines showing the position assumed as a cigarette is being removed from the box. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the movable upper end. thereof shown bottom side up.

My device is designed to deliver matches or similar small articles one at a time by simply shaking the box. In the preferred form, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the box is also adapted to contain cigarettes as well as matches. My invention, however, is not limited to this preferred form, as it may be applied to match-boxes generally and indeed to other boxes for delivering small articles one at a time by simply shaking the box.

a represents a box adapted to contain cigarettes and matches, preferably crescent shaped to more easily fit in the breast-pocket of the owner. It is provided with a vertical partition I), on one side of which matches are arranged and on the other side of which cigarettes appear. To the bottom of the box I have shown applied the ordinary rough paper 0, on which safety-matches are adapted to be lighted. This, however, is not strictly necessary. The top of the box is closed by a cover d, pivoted at e therein, and is normally held closed by an elastic rubber band f,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 22, 1905.

.tatenteol May 15, 1906.

Serial No. 261.641.

which passes over the cover and under the bottom of the box. This elastic band is held in place by the paper 0 on the bottom of the box and by a strip of paper g, pasted on the top of the cover. The cover is provided with an inclined groove h, which terminates in a hole opposite end the box is cut away, as shown i, slightly larger than a match head. At the at j, so that by lifting the cover a cigarette may be pulled out by the thumb and finger of the user. To obtain a match, the box is inverted and shaken slightly, whereupon the head of a match falls into the inclined groove h and slides down, and the match itself is delivered through the hole '6.

The box shown in Fig. 1 is preferably made of pasteboard with a rubber band passing around it and fastened to the bottom and cover thereof and curved to fit the pocket of the user.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A box provided with a partition divid- Y ing it into two chambers, one for the reception of matches, and the other for the reception of cigarettes, a cover pivoted near one end to said box, said cover being provided over the match-holding chamber with a delivery-hole and an inclined trough leading to said hole, and resilient means for holding the cover closed, substantially as described.

2. A box provided with a partition dividing it into two chambers, one for the reception of matches, and the other for the reception of cigarettes, said box being cut away near one corner thereof so that a cigarette may be easily reached, a cover pivoted near oneend thereof to the top of said box, and a resilient band secured. to said cover and passing around said box, substantially as described. a

3. A crescent-shaped box provided with a partition dividing it into two chambers, one for matches, and the other for cigarettes, said box being cut away near one of its upper corners, a cover pivoted near one end to the top of said box, and an elastic band secured to said box and said cover and passing around them, said cover being provided with a delivery-hole for matches, substantially as described.

4. In a combined match and cigarette box, the combination of a crescent-shaped boxbody cut away near one of the upper corners I In testimony whereof I affix my signature thereof, a cover adapted to fit in the open tog in presence of two Witnesses.

of said box said cover bein ivoted to sai box near orie end thereof, a d a rubber band I LOUIS D E GOLL passing around said boX and said cover, and Witnesses: secured to both of them, substantially as de- S. DUNCAN BLACK, scribed. HENRY H. WIEGAND. 

